W2 🛸 PLAYER CYOA: BUP ROLLERS BOUGHDYQUEST (LOWEEJ) CONT'D

[dropoffs]

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[thematics]

[ mmm you're not lookin' so good kid. (well, neither of us are. no one is.) she puts away the gun and raises her hand to ruffle his hair. and then like. stops before making contact. drops her hand back to her side. ]

Good. Wasn't sure where either of you went.

[solesuccess]

[ this time he doesn't even bother trying to duck away, but she moves at the last second so none ruffle. ]

Yeah. We...walked in together and then you guys disappeared. It was the same, right?

[thematics]

Yeah. Where'd you end up?

[solesuccess]

I went home.

[thematics]

[ thinks about this. for a long moment. ]

Me too.

[solesuccess]

[ . . . ]

Do you wish you hadn't, too?

[thematics]

... Yeah. I'm tired of going back.

[solesuccess]

I didn't want to leave. [ so. it's complicated. ] But we're here now. So what do we do?

[thematics]

You'll get back again. It's just going to take some time.

[ well, she's unaware of the things that still won't really fix but. whatever. ]

I don't know. You were our mission intel man, right? So what comes next?

[solesuccess]

[ give him time to just take a breath and try to pull himself together. right. let's just focus on getting back to the eudora. ]

We regroup. We should...check in with the others, see if they learned any intel that'll help us get back. And then we should figure out a direction.

[thematics]

[ yeah she's not one to interrupt pauses right now. we truly all just Went Through It. ]

... There can't be much more to go. We're almost done.

[solesuccess]

I hope you're right about that. But the end is always the hardest, right?

[thematics]

I'm thinking we've hit a plateau of how hard things can get.

[solesuccess]

...no jinxing?

[thematics]

... Yeah, my bad.

[solesuccess]

[ shakes his head. ]

It's fine. Let's just focus on going.

[riverbeans]

All I ask is that no one explode anymore...

[thematics]

Mmhmm.